Ani­mal Col­lec­tive are hav­ing a busier year than usu­al – as well as sin­gle releas­es Love on the Big Screen and Bud­dies on the Black­board, they will cel­e­brate the 20th anniver­sary of their land­mark sixth stu­dio album Feels with two new lim­it­ed-edi­tion for­mats via Domi­no: Feels 20th Anniver­sary is a reis­sue of the orig­i­nal album with a bonus disc fea­tur­ing nine B‑sides and pre­vi­ous­ly unre­leased demos and will be avail­able on 3xLP, 2xCD, and dig­i­tal­ly on Octo­ber 17th. FEELS Live 04/05 is a col­lec­tion of audio record­ed live to Mini­Disc at shows from the era in 2004 and 2005 and will be avail­able on cas­sette, Mini­Disc, and dig­i­tal­ly also on Octo­ber 17th.

Feels 20th Anniver­sary includes recent­ly unearthed demo ver­sions of four tracks, and along­side the announce­ment, the band shares a rare demo of the album’s sin­gle Grass.

Record­ed in Seat­tle with engi­neer Scott Col­burn, Feels saw Ani­mal Col­lec­tive return to a quar­tet with Josh “Deakin” Dibb and Bri­an “Geol­o­gist” Weitz after Dave “Avey Tare” Port­ner and Noah “Pan­da Bear” Lennox record­ed Sung Tongs as a duo. 

Pitch­fork would even­tu­al­ly name the album one of the best of the 2000s, hail­ing its “sense of exu­ber­ance as big and as pur­pose­less as a for­est, some­times joy­ful­ly sav­age and some­times soft­ly haunt­ing, but always beyond genre or strat­e­gy or inten­tion. Above all, it is what Ani­mal Col­lec­tive do with their voic­es here that astounds: whis­per­ing, shriek­ing, mut­ter­ing, plead­ing, sigh­ing, their sprite-like pres­ence is some­how thor­ough­ly alien and yet unnerv­ing­ly inti­mate.”

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Feels 20th anniver­sary, Domi­no